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Tradeshows...
October 20-22,2017
March 2-4,2018
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The Chamber Connect: Coming this June!
The Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to the businesses in our community
for almost 125 years
. I am sure most  take for granted all the hard work, long hours and risk that is involved with running a business. So we thought we would extend our thanks to 2000 of our businesses around town this June with The Chamber Connect! The Chamber office will be closed June 5th-9th and we will all
be
out in the community stopping by with the best gift ... CHOCOLATE! And what is even better than chocolate?? How about a chance to win a "Golden Ticket"! Golden Ticket
winners could win gifts/discounts from
Brightan Financial, Bee-Clean,
StringTech, The Sharpener, Zenith Engraving, The Beveridge, and of course from us too! We might just be stopping in to say "HI" to you!
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Have you got your tickets for the Rotary Vision Celebration yet? This will be the most exciting night of entertainment that Medicine Hat has ever experienced! On April 28
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at the Beveridge building, relax in the pub styled basement with live music and Hell's basement mystery cask and Tiger Tail officia l launch party or dance the night away on the top floor in a Masquerade Ball featuring Cool Ray and the Hip Katz. This event will also include an Art Show with 30 of our most talented local artists, live and silent auctions, photographers, card games, and so much more!! One attendee will win a $5,000 travel voucher. You won't want to miss this.
All proceeds for this event are going to enhance the trail system through the City of Medicine Hat. Get your tickets right now online in person at the front desk of Park City Toyota, or call Chris Perret at 403.977.5792.
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Office Professionals Day is Wednesday, April 26th. Enjoy lunch in Redwood Steakhouse & Bar with your team. All lunch items include complimentary banana foster. Call 403-502-8176 for reservations.
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 Rebel Power Yoga is a power yoga community inspiring the best versions of ourselves and the world around us. We aspire to amplify greatness, to live and serve from love, and radically change the conversation on the mate and around the world. We believe in fulfilling upon YOUR purpose; on and off the mat. We support you in discovering and reaching your potential. |
 April 23rd to 29th is National Volunteer Week and this year marks the 14th consecutive year that Volunteer Canada delivers the National Volunteer Week Campaign in partnership with Investors Group. To celebrate all volunteers and to get you thinking more deeply about volunteering, during NVW Volunteer Canada will release a series of crossword puzzles that reveal the impacts, benefits and diverse ways Canadians are involved in communities. Some answers may be obvious, while others may cause you to stop and say: "Volunteering, Eh?"
We'd like to take the time say thank you to everyone that takes the time to volunteer and to our volunteers who have helped out at the Chamber of Commerce. |
Business Beat: The Evolution of Communication
We first started communicating via letter mail (550 B.C), followed by the telegraph (1792), then the telephone in 1890, followed by radio in 1891. Then came the 20th century with super computers in the 1940s, the birth of the early version of the internet in the 1960s, with the World Wide Web going live to the world in 1990. Since the mid 1990s, the internet has had a revolutionary impact on culture, commerce, technology and the rise of near-instant communication. Enter the era of online social media - the new age of communication. When social media first took hold, it was more about creating a profile, making friends online, sharing photos and posting stories (blogs) - this was in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However in 2006 Facebook and Twitter became available to users throughout the world and a new global online network of communication emerged. If you look at Wikipedia today, there are more than 200 social networking websites, and up until more recently it's been more optional for businesses to engage in these platforms... read more
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Finding and keeping customers is what keeps businesses growing and owners happy. The market place keeps changing and finding new customers in the private sector may take several marketing campaigns potentially costing a large amount of money. Meanwhile, finding new customers within the public sector, including federal, provincial and local governments, just takes a new skill. Palliser Economic Partnership:Selling to Government Seminar is
just the event to help you learn that new skill.
Every level of government has purchasing needs, many of which can be filled by local businesses willing to learn the process that ensures open and fair competition for all businesses.
In military spending alone there are literally hundreds of millions of dollars in spending coming out of the three military bases along the Eastern Alberta Trade Corridor. Each of CFB Cold Lake, CFB Wainwright and CFB Suffield operates as the equivalent of any town, and their residents require the same basic necessities any town citizen would.
However, the two big differences are these "towns" don't have any local businesses to rely on for food, supplies, equipment, infrastructure, etc. and many of their "citizens" turn over every two years, bringing in an entirely new group of residents in need of the same necessities. For surrounding communities and businesses, that reality is an invitation into a pool of military spending because a large percentage of the money being spent by each base and its military personnel is available on a local level... read more
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The Private Business Growth Award, presented by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Grant Thornton LLP, was created to recognize and celebrate the success of Canada's best private businesses. In this spirit, the award shines a spotlight on private companies that approach growth in a strategic, sustainable and holistic manner-and, through their efforts, contribute to the strength of our national economy. Any company in the business community can be considered for the award, provided the company is a Canadian-owned private business in at least its third year of operation as of December 2016, with minimum annual revenues of $5 million and meets all eligibility criteria... read more
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 The Frugal Decorator - Jodi Faith specializes in creating a "new look" for your home. By using your treasures Jodie can help you purge, declutter and make everything old new again! |
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